9, 9A And 9B, The Traverse

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW THE TRAVERSE 639-1/14/637 Nos.9, 9A AND 9B 12/07/72

GV II

House, now divided into 3 shops on the ground floor and flats above. Early C19. Fronted in white brick with a panelled parapet and a moulded stone cornice. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 5 window range, all sashes with a single vertical glazing-bar to lights in plain reveals with stuccoed lintels and stone sills. Above the 1st storey windows segmental arches in the brickwork are infilled with diaper brick. There are the remains of old signs painted on the upper part of the walls. The 3 shops have C20 fronts, No.9B in Regency style. The 3-storey Skinner Street frontage is partly rendered, with an irregular arrangement of small-paned sash windows in flush cased frames; one sliding sash window on the top storey. The rear of No.9B, which is now linked with No.10 The Traverse (qv), is faced in C18 red brick: a blocked window to both upper storeys and a sash window to each storey, 6-pane to the top storey, 16-pane to the 1st and ground storeys, all in flush cased frames. The ground and 1st storey windows have flat gauged arches; external shutters to the ground storey window and a door with flush panels. INTERIOR: cellar below No.9B has old render over rubble walling on which large simulated stone blocks have been outlined. A stone pillar supporting a ceiling beam has a Norman nook shaft and another similar shaft is embedded in the walling. No features exposed within any of the shops, but some exposed timbering in the top storey of the Skinner Street range.

Listing NGR: TL8528664248